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Part of your televising in the house and senate. the problem is some of the deals, some of the important deals weren t transparent. deals that were supposedly cut by the white house were not followed by the house. we went about putting to the a bill that we thought met the needs of the american people when it came to health care. whatever deals pave been made earlier in the process, in the house, we started if from scratch. greta: don t blame you guys. well, in the house we started from scratch we had committee hearings, they were all on c-span. some amendments the republicans offered pass, some failed. so it went through the normal process. i think it is a good idea to have everybody together at the white house to have that kind of exchange of ideas that the president had in baltimore. greta: i m not blaming the house for what happens in the senate or at the white house in terms of transparency. i hear you. i appreciate that greta: i m not blaming you ....
The entire community of aruba. paul was playing tennis yesterday and he collapsed and the ambulance was unfortunately unable to resuscitate him. greta:s what has been going on for the family? is everything back to normal? is the family shunned? what has been the relationship of the van der sloots on the island? you have to understand that the island of an rue bark the people of aruba we respect the judicial system here. to this very date, there have been no charges in this case. paul has been completely exonerated. he according to the authorities has no participation in the event at all. sorry to say that, but in this case. it has just been devastating for everybody. greta: where is ....
Was a sign to the right to tell them he won t stand in their way if they want to do tax cuts. i kind of find that hard to believe. last week when you reported on the budget released it had hundreds of millions of dollars of tax increases on it for americans of all shapes and sizes. one of the things interesting politically from a communications standpoint it is difficult to have it both ways. you can t be claiming credit for cutting taxes for 95% of the american people at the same time being agnostic or allowing for tax increases like the health care bill would have been although i don t that i is going to pass. you talk about the cap and trade bill on this program. it is important, because while it might be an issue that needs to be debated we to be realistic about the cost that would include tax increases for the american people as well. greta: last summer two of his top economic advisers summer and geithner suggested the administration may have to reconsider the contempt of taxes. ....
Come components which the public does like then we can begin to move forward. i think the votes would be there in the senate. clearly the president expressed an interest in getting republicans onboard. he also has said the main thing we need is to get health care reform done in a way that serves the interests of the american people. bringing down costs. greta: you mentioned the deal senator nelson had. of course i m not saying you are part of it, you in the house what did you think when that went down? when you heard about the carve out the special deal for nebraska? did you know that uh-oh now we got trouble? none of us thought it was a good idea. senator nelson says it was not his idea and he wrote to the president saying he doesn t want to take that approach. that s the kind of thing that raises questions in the mind of the public understandably so. you shouldn t have special deals that benefit one state to the exclusion of others. i think that has created part of the problem ....
Hospital tomorrow. secretary of state hillary clinton arrived at new york s columbia presbyterian hospital earlier this evening to be with her husband. their daughter is also there. mr. clinton has been to haiti twice since last month s earthquake. a spokesperson says he will continue to help with recovery efforts there. i m lauren green. now back to on the record. greta: there s news tonight on aruba involving the natalee holloway case. the alabama teenager finished in 2005 while on a high school trip. the chief suspect in the yvs. yesterday his father paulis van der sloot suddenly and unexpected die. joining us julia tell us what happened with paulis? it was very shocking for the van der sloot family and ....